A tale likely to resonate with many amid Hollywood’s current crisis, Max Walker-Silverman’s gentle drama transports you to the American West, as a raging wildfire destroys a precious family farm and ravages a struggling small town. As those affected—Josh O’Connor, The White Lotus’s Meghann Fahy, and True Detective: Night Country’s Kali Reis—begin to pick up the pieces, their local community rallies behind them, too.
Opus
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When a soft-spoken but ambitious journalist (Ayo Edebiri) is invited, along with a smattering of other writers and fans, to the remote desert home of a pop legend (John Malkovich) who mysteriously disappeared decades ago, she gets much more than she bargained for in Mark Anthony Green’s A24 chiller. Expect bizarre musical numbers, a disturbing game of cat and mouse, a repudiation of celebrity worship, and a supporting cast including Juliette Lewis, The Last of Us’s Murray Bartlett, and Prey’s Amber Midthunder.
Rabbit Trap
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